Bovis Lend Lease Reviews

Pros

Learning Opportunities and great coworkers

Cons

Disorganized leadership and backwards employee retention where the last employee hired is the first to be let go regardless of their performance. We have had mutiple 5 and 6 figure expenditures (employee recognition, Christmas party) over the last few months that could have been avoided in order to allow more people to retain their positions.

Advice to Senior Management

Trim the DEAD weight not the PRODUCTIVE weight. Do not terminate positions base on who is least likely to sue. When the economy does pick back up, it would help if there were some smart young poeple left to help get back to #1.

Pros

The compensation from what I can tell is superior to most companies in this industry. The company is also aggressive about obtaining a continual supply of work. That provides a level of security to the employee. While there are isolated instances when an employee is let go generally good performance is rewarded with continued service. The company is keen on retention of good people and will make all reasonable attempts to assign an employee to a psoition even if it does not match that employee's usual job description. Once a job materializes a re assignment is made. There are many corporate systems in place to help the employee with its work and to help the employee develop with training. These do help to some degree with moving up in the company.

Cons

There is quite a bit of pressure to perform. It is this industry that creates the pressure and as a result much time needs to be dedicated to work. This business sometimes feels like you have a tiger by the tail. There is quite a bit of work to do and not always enough time to get it done. Unfortunately, we are not always given the necessary resources to accomplish the tasks we need to. Bovis has been unable to fully staff all of its projects with totally qualified people in the recent uptick in work in this east coast market place. Because of that it has placed greater burdens on those competent individuals to ensure that their projects are run properly.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on ways to reduce employee stress.

Pros

Working on high profile interesting projects, with some of the best people in the industry and for some of the best clients around. I get the sense there is a genuine desire here to do the right thing.

Cons

Internal politics like many large organisations can be a drag and a barrier to getting things done sometimes.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to make sure they keep working their communications, keep visible and always walk the talk. IT systems and HR functions need to be improved.